Many cell phone manufacturers are shipping and planning to ship phones that do not have a plug jack for your current earphones, instead they are coming more and more with a bluetooth interface in order to save physical space and other design related issues.

Would you be willing to buy a + bluetooth headset to replace your current earphones just for the purpose of being able to listen to your mp3 music from your phone?

I would like a desk external hard drive or less with a USB 3.0 interface. I am finding many of these but they are usually out of my price range. Do not worry about finding anything with a lot of memory, I don’t necessarily need more than 250 gigs.
I appreciate any answers you have to offer, and if I have to I will buy a more portable EHD, but I do prefer the dock Please feel free to offer links to mobile drives as well as desktop drives. Thank you.

So, story is, my place of work was throwing away their old Nortel-branded phones and I got 4 of them.

Is there any way I can use these at home, preferably still using my Charter digital home phone? Any free VoIP solution that can somehow interface with them? These phones are quite nice and comfortable, I obviously won’t need or use the business-specific features but it’s a shame to let them go to waste.

I want a software that has an online interface and allows me to have multiple users. I am in the process of starting a small tax preparation business and want about 20-30 preparers. I want each preparer to be able to login and have their individual progress tracked similar to OLTPRO, but is there anything better out there?

I am a current BB Storm owner and am really upset with what I’ve experienced with it so far. I’m a small business owner and really can push a phone to it’s limits as far as usage between phone, email, and text. This is my 3rd blackberry, coming from an old 7700, to a pearl, now to the Storm. I honestly think the Storm is lacking refinement, my pearl kept up with me better. Here’s my complaints so far:

-Applications are very larger and use up a lot of the phone’s operating memory, causing it to react very slowly to almost anything you need it to do in crunch time.
-Camera may be larger mega-pixel then previous 8300 series but it definitely takes worse pictures.
-Keyboard is hard to work with, even after 5 months its easy to make typos and the system usually won’t correct it even if you’re close.
-There is no longer a delete key on the keyboard, just backspace, you won’t believe how important that key is until you need it, and after you make a typo, which you will on this phone, it will frustrate you with how difficult it is to correct.
-As far as applications, its doesn’t offer anywhere near as many applications as the iphone, and what it is offered is expensive.
-BATTERY LIFE!!!! By far the biggest complaint is its battery life, I’ve done all the tricks, closing un-used apps, mid-day battery pull (which is a rediclous fix) and texting more instead of calling to save bettery life, yet I can’t seem to get passed 5:30pm everyday (work day starts at 6 am). My old pearl use to last 2-3 days!

Otherwise, the interface is typical Blackberry, which is great in my opinion, this interface has always been efficient in running my business, but the phone itself doesn’t.

So the big question is: Will the I-phone solve all my above concerns?

Thanks!

In the cisco ios, what command configures an interface with the text

ISP LINK

? I used to know, but forgot. Also is it entered during global configuration mode? For example, if the interface was fa0/0 how do I configure it as stated above? And what does the prompt look like? Thanks.

We have to office locations (A & B). Currenlty A has a Avaya phone switch. We are looking at moving people to location B and setting up a point to point T1 between the two. Data traffic will be easy, but can someone help me understand our options for voice? Currently at location A there are no direct numbers, only extensions. Ideally we would like workers at location B to have extensions and be able to transfer calls directly to extensions in our office. Can we utilize our current switch between locations using the T1?
Thanks for the great responses. Some details if it will help: Right now we have one pbx at office A. Ideally Office B would not have any phone lines and would be served extensions that can transfer transparently with extensions in A. Switch in office A is a Partner Plus ACS and is not T1 compatible. A dedicated T1 would be in place already for data use so I want to see if it makes sense to try and leverage it for voice traffic as well. Looking at channel bridges to interface pbx with T1 router (via vwic?). Would a tie line make more sense? Would like to keep the pbx in office A in use and not discard the money we’ve invested into it.

is so poor and unresponsive? I asked a question yesterday on why Turbo Tax Customer Support is so poor and unresponsive to it’s customer needs when it comes to their software, and it’s interface with the IRS, and this morning I received a notice from Yahoo that my question was deleted cause it didn’t conform to the community standards. I really don’t understand why Yahoo would delete it, nor do I understand why anyone would want it deleted. I just wrote and ask a simple question in regards if anyone else as dissatisfied as I am with Turbo Tax’s Customer Service, and although I will never recommend their software nor will I purchase their software again, would does anyone else feel the same?

When the destination network is not listed in the routing table of a cisco router, what are two possible actions that router might take?

1. The router sends an ARP request to determine the required next hop address.

2. The router discard the packet
3. The router forward packet toward the next hop indicated in the ARP table
4. The router forward the packet to the interface indicated by the source address
5. The router forward packet out the interface indicated by the default route entry

snd me the correct answer pls……

We currently have a Cisco 3540 router with some T1/E1 VWIC. We are currently experiencing about a 14ms delay when we ping them. We would like to introduce some artificial delay to get us around 40ms to see if our application can handle latency. I have tried configuring the interface, with delay, and transmitter delay but nothing works,

Personally, I think the touch screen on the Cisco is a much better interface than that of the Avaya, and it allows for easy LDAP search functions. What do you think?
Truthfully, I couldn’t care less… just bored at work on a Friday and wanted to see how many people would respond.

I just want a phone that I can store ruffly 2-4 gigs of music on it with a really easy interface and good scrolling devices (Scrolling through the track etc). The mp3 player should be the phones strong point. Want a ruffly cheap one. What do I get?

I have two cisco routers connected with serial cables and they are being configured with a console cable. I set the ip address of both routers 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 and then run a no shut. I exit to exec mode and run a show interface and all I get is Serial is up, line protocol is down. How do I get the line protocol to also be up?

How does the call get from the public Internet onto the telephone network? Does Skype (and the other VOIP operators) own equipment in each country to provide the interface? Where is it situated, in each telephone exchange, or centrally?
Mali, the question concerned calls that go from the internet to land phones.

I am looking for an Internet Phone Service that will allow me to make and record phone calls directly from my computer. I would like a software solution without any additional hardware equipment, using only the service providers interface and features. It is also important to be able to record long phone conversations (30 – 45 minutes) and not be limited to only a few minutes.